After a couple of clubnights playing skittles chess and making preparations for the new competitions, members got down to the more serious business of the club championship. Steve Murray played new member Mike Redman in the Championship itself, while Tom Badlan and Fred Hodge tried their luck in the U-125 tournament. Both White losses.

Murray (l) & Redman get the new season under way with a handshake.

Redman essays the Sicilian while Badlan (l) faces Hodge in the background.